| All comments about smax4pnp.exe: |
 Sable | I know that it is the driver that runs Sound Max on my Intel 865GBF. I don't need it as I use Creative Lab Sound Blaster Live instead. It can be disabled in system settings. |
 Ben! | Driver for built-in sound card on Asus mobo |
| jn | Keeps freezing my computer on log-off/shut down, but appears to be harmless otherwise |
| Joe Grant | I know that if you want to delete it, it isn't as difficult as everyone says. I'm not a computer guy, sop I don't know about removing registry items and such. So, in Spybot, after you have fixed the problem, go to recovery. You will see that spybot has backed up SMax4PNP. Just chose to "purge" this item. I haven't had it sence. |
| | SoundMax Drivers, in my case for ASUS P4P800-E |
| ghostface | SoundMax Drivers not dangerous |
| | Keeps freezing my computer on log-off/shut down, but appears to be harmless otherwise |
| DonFouse | It appears to be unneeded as sound still works. I think it senses changes to what is plugged in to sound ports. Startcop will find and disable or remove. It hangs up my PC on shutdown also. |
| | SoundMax Drivers |
 SHansen | I downloaded it from a website that was supposed to make it so I could download movies onto my computer. I am not able to do that and ever since I installed it, my computer frequently freezes up and that is said to be running. I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of it. Scans that I have done says I have no malicious spy ware on my computer yet another program I have keeps telling me that I do. |
 Josephtan Chenghock | smax4pnp is an sound card for computer See also: Link |
| sandguy | SoundMax Drivers have redundent problems when you try to shut it of |
| Waldo | Interferes with MS Money 2006 Deluxe |
| Seven | stürzt gerne mal ab beim Herunterfahren des Windows XP. Ist aber nur ein Treiber, der harmlos ist. Vielleicht schreddert es mir irgendwann mal die Platte beim Herunterfahren, aber ohne diesesn Treiber gehts halt nicht. |
 | I was trying to open "My Documents" like I do everyday, but it gave me a blank white box with none of my files, and my cursor told me my computer was working hard, poor thing. CTRL+ALT+DELETE told me that 'My Documents' was Not Responding. Since this stuff usually happens when something wicked snuck onto my computer, I looked at my processes on task manager, and the first thing that stood out was smax4pnp, since I've never seen it before in my life. Decided that, because of this site, I should get rid of it, I did so. Tried to open My Documents again and voila! It works. |
| Deb | Keeps freezing my computer on log-off/shut down, not sure if it is harmless or not. |
| Shawn | Soundmax driver, for those of you who said it hangs up thier logoff, had the same issue, completly remove the soundmax installation, than reinstall, haven't had the logoff issue since. |
| stolat | Treiber (soundmax) für onboard Audiochip auf 915er chipset. Kann aus "run" deaktiviert werden (msconfig). |
 Lola | Every time I ever had a problem with my computer and shut it down, microsoft memo says this progam is running. |
| Ace | SoundMax Drivers for a couple of ASUS Boards |
| Ash | Freezes occasionally when I have put the computer into standby or hibernate. I don't use its environmental effects so I just disabled it. |
| Blizzard | SoundMax Driver, not dangerous. It´s a common problem that this driver freezes the computer sometimes if shutting down. But if the file is located in WINDOWS\System32, it can be a cloaked virus, so be careful. |
| Root4u | Soundmax soundcard software, in this case HP laptop |
| hakkelikuk | Keeps freezing my computer on log-off/shut down, but appears to be harmless otherwise |
| T'Surakmaat | high and constant page faults! even though it only takes about 8M of memory, it constantly generates page faults, which makes no sense... i removed it and all seems well. if you don't want it to load at boot, try renaming it to DONOTLOAD_SMax4PMP.exe and see what happens... you can always rename it back. |
| Bounce | Comes with audio driver for SoundMax audio chip (usually with VIA chip). Causes problems when shutting off Windows XP system (fails to close). Solution is to disable the start-up of this program using MSCONFIG. |
| Dil | Definatly related to the Soundmax card on your machine. Knew nothing about it until I looked on this site, Thanks Google and ZoneAlarms for picking it up. I followed the advice from this site to uninstall it with Device Manager, It did solve my hang up issues when closing down the pc, and as ever XP just installs it when you re-boot.. WARNING, for those of you out there that like to do a complete cleanup before re-booting(Recommended for EVERY RE-BOOT of XP sorry Gates! Operating System you cannot do! Bing back DOS! |
| Laura | SMax4PNP was keeping my computer from shutting down. I went to start/run/type in msconfig/OK/ then go to the startup tab and uncheck it. |
| Sponge | SoundMax also feature on the dell 8400 standard Mobo. I have a SB Audigy2 card as well so don't use it. Only time it has caused problems is in setting up a microphone. |
| Max W | Reinstalling latest version of driver for Intel board didn't fix problem with hanging. Reinstalling earlier version I had archive seems to have worked |
| | SoundMax Drivers, Harmless. |
| Shortodd | It keeps giving me an error message when I start up my computer |
| Kyle | Drivers of SoundMax sound cards. Some versions are known to be buggy and hang systems. |
| komani | smax4pnp.exe obviously is an additional sound driver that came with the software cd included with my samsung notebook. the driver causes problems everytime i shut down the computer. de- and re-installing didn't solve the problem. I installed another sound driver included with windows xp2, which works fine, but the smax-driver offers more options / features, so i'm not quite sure if it's needed for advanced settings of this special notebook and its audio devices etc.!?! but i'm sure it's not dangerous in MY case as i installed it from original cd .. See also: Link |
| | Soundmax driver, after reinstalling driver from manufacture, the lockup problems went away. |
| hydra | its new for my PC task manager list of processes. I removed it and cant find Soundmax in myPCs Add - Remove programs list |
| | Sound Max, alright, as clean exe file. However, trojans come dressed as this sound file. Have your SoundMax Driver files available. Boot to safemode. Go to C:\program files\analog devices\soundmax. Locate Smax4pnp.exe and rename to Smax4pnp.exe.old. Go to the SoundMax driver files you have available and run setup.exe. When finished. Restart and load windows normally. It worked for me and reinstalled the true version of Smax4pnp.exe. Check by locating c:\program files |
| Fnp | It always gives me an error message |
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